</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Rock Lee @ Jan 1 2004, 01:43 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> Wow people like that show, i mean i understand that that its violent and disturbing, i mean Ichi literally masterbates to others being raped... not a normal guy. However it lacked anything else making it worth watching. The charcters had no personality worth mentioning and the chick who spoke english and japenese sometimes was about as lifeless as possible. The plot itself had tons of holes and explained very little, i believe it was ment for people who had read the manga for it. From what i understand the uncut edition is on suprnova thats where i got mine. For any of you reading this thread wondering what were tlaking about the movies like a bad snuff film, with dated japenese affecst and terrible writing even for a movie from wherever in asia it was made im assuming japan because &quot;Ichi&quot; is one in jap. Just my humble opnion but showing someone more violence decenatizes them to it making them more prone to commit said acts. I can remember when that movie with marlan wayans and those other people about drugs came out a few years ago everyone was like &quot;hey show this one to all the drug addicts they&#39;ll never wanna do drugs again&quot;. I don&#39;t know too many people who&#39;ve seen that movie sober it makes no sense. I&quot;ll update this once i remember what the movie was called. </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I think its meant to have a comic-book style to it, much of the violence is totally over the top and I think the film sets its stall out as it is, there isn&#39;t a great deal of story to it but judging from interviews I&#39;ve seen with the director that seemed to be pretty much the plan...

I don&#39;t think watching violent films makes people more likely to commit such acts at all. This all reminds me of the &#39;video nasties&#39; thing that went on over here during the 90&#39;s.

It still amazes me how movies like Ichi The Killer, bands like Slipknot and Marilyn Manson, and video games like Twisted Metal Black are censored and criticised for being violent and inspiring violent behaviour, and yet I&#39;ve seen huge colour photos of corpses of heroin addicts, corpses of Saddam Husseins brothers etc on the front pages of newspapers&#33; Also, I remember on September 11th, the news cut in during childrens TV time (ie &quot;we interrupt this cartoon to bring you news of....&quot; etc) to show action replays of aeroplanes flying into buildings, and filming a guy falling to his death from a fucking great height&#33; The camera followed him falling to his death for ages and I guess I just find it surprising that people don&#39;t seem to have a problem allowing children to see demonstrations of real life violence and showing them mutilated war victims and corpses, while censoring films that are directed at an ADULT audience, which come from someones imagination...